Brevis has successfully showcased 99.6% real-time proving of Ethereum blocks on standard consumer GPUs, a monumental leap towards improving the scalability of the blockchain experience.

The latest Ethereum scaling solution, Pico Prism, facilitates instantaneous proving of blocks utilizing everyday retail gaming processors, negating the need for costly supercomputers. The technology marks a significant stride forward, aimed at achieving 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) for the Ethereum network.

According to Brevis, they utilized 64 Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics cards, currently recognized as the leading graphics hardware for gaming, to realize this feat. In a recent test carried out in September, the system could prove blocks in under 12 seconds, laying the groundwork for lighter, phone-compatible validation systems.

“This marks a major step toward scaling Ethereum by 100x and a future where you can validate the chain from a phone.”

Brevis plans to refine the technology further with a roadmap targeting 99% real-time proving with fewer than 16 RTX 5090 GPUs in the months ahead.

Significant Progress in Scaling Ethereum

This advancement signifies that the traditionally computational-intensive proving process can now keep pace with block production speeds using available consumer technology, thus making lightweight validation feasible.

Under the current structure, validators must re-execute all transactions to confirm blocks, which is costly and creates significant slowdowns in the system. Brevis indicates that:

“Real-time proving breaks this model. One prover generates a proof, and everyone else verifies it in milliseconds.”

Moving Towards 10,000 TPS

Ethereum’s structured plan suggests a shift from re-execution to approval via ZK-proofs by validators, setting the stage for hitting 10,000 TPS by 2029 if the growth continues at 3x annually.

“At 3x per year, scaling Ethereum L1 would reach 10k TPS by April 2029,” stated Ryan Sean Adams from Bankless.

The upcoming Fusaka upgrade, expected in December, aims to enhance real-time proving procedures, according to Bitcoin security expert Justin Drake.

“EIP-7825 caps per transaction gas usage, enabling more parallel proving via subblocks,” he mentioned.

A Future with Phones as Nodes

This innovation signifies a significant progress in the trajectory of Ethereum, with the Ethereum Foundation stating:

“ZK technology like Pico Prism will enable Ethereum to scale to meet global demand, while still remaining trustworthy and decentralized.”

Mike Warner, a notable tech entrepreneur, affirmed:

“The phone-as-a-node future just got real.”

As Ethereum transitions into a zk-chain, with Layer 1 supporting global finance and enhancing block sizes to 10,000 TPS, the dream of extensive scalability without compromising decentralization or security is becoming a reality.